Prison grievance believed to be behind fatal Albouystown shooting
Collis Collison, the 26year-old man who was fatally shot on Thursday in Albouystown, is believed to have been killed over an old grievance.
Police sources have said Collison and his killer were known to each other and the grievance between them dates back to when they were both incarceratedThe police had said that Collison, a resident of Better Hope, East Coast Demerara and 68 William Street, Kitty was shot around 2.45 pm at Barr Street, Albouystown by an identified male suspect.
He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital by a public-spirited citizen but was pronounced dead at 3.26 pm.
At the time of the incident, the police had said that Collison was standing on Barr Street, Albouystown when the suspect approached with a firearm brandished, shot him and fled the scene.
The police was yet to make an arrest up to last evening.
Collison was charged on several occasions between 2011 and 2016.
In 2011, Collison was remanded to prison for the murder of a Linden businessman Albert Joseph, called ‘Bolo.’ He was also arraigned on two armed robbery charges. He was freed of that murder charge in November of 2014.
In the next year, he was charged with discharging a loaded firearm at off-duty rank Prem Narine, and with having in his possession a .38 revolver and three live rounds of matching ammunition without being the holder of a valid firearm licence.
He was also charged in 2016 with discharging a loaded firearm at off-duty rank Richard Ramoutar, with the intent to maim, disfigure or cause him actual bodily harm. It was alleged that Collison was part of a gang which trailed persons from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and then robbed them.
He was, however, freed of all these charges in 2016 due to insufficient evidence.
He was also one of the inmates of the Camp Street prison who offered testimony during the Commission of Inquiry into the deadly prison fire and unrest.